I suggest you join both posts together, otherwise the reactance of the T1 secondary (hi-Z side of reverse direction xfmr) will be in series with the beverage if primary disconnected. Shorting or load
More bad cable.not shorted but very lossy 213. Disappointed in that purchase. I have now replaced all the beverage feedline with LMR-400, and reception is now more like what I expect. Thanks OK, we h
Hi Jorge, I can comment on this from personal experience. My first Beverage farm consisted of several unterminated, bidirectional Beverages. I could hear better with them than I could with the verti
Jamie, I have the same setup, i.e., 2 #14 wires spaced 12". The impedance is about 750 ohms and there is a mismatch to the DXE system but I don't think it's enough to make a major difference in recei
Hello All: This was an interesting thread and I decided to do a little test. It was mentioned that on some reversible beverage installations that on the reverse direction there was a noticeable decre
I have a east/west reversible Beverage, (reflection transforms etc) it works well East, but poor to the west, the definition of poor is that a phased end fire array of 2 EWEs separated by 38m always
Quoting Tree <tree@kkn.net>: Good point Tree! I will think of this often during the Stew Perry Challenge while transmitting Morse from my Colpitts MOPA into my Marconi while listening intently for si
Someone pointed out to me that I was not showing proper respect to the person who invented the Beverage antenna by not capitializing his name. I should have known better as I have a copy of the origi
Electric fence wire is about $ 22.00 per quarter mile stateside. Hold it up with fence insulators or wire ties. Earle K6SE (sk) got fabulous front to back ratios as per a survey I took years ago. He
No reason for Ladder line to break if you secure the ladder line to the supports using a break-away mounting. I use light duty plastic tie-wraps around the ladder line, leaving the ladder line free t